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The Once-Dank Parking Garage

By

Ann Carrns Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 16, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- One recent evening, 11-year-old Madison Murphy is interacting with a new public "interactive sculpture." She presses one of the hundreds of colored glass panels attached to the structure. The purple rectangle glows, turns pink and emits a sound like an electronic keyboard. "It's kind of freaky," she says, giggling.

The sculpture is called "Touch My Building." But a more precise name might be "Park My Car," because it houses a public garage with 1,600 spaces. It is...